Dr. J Rodney TURNER got PhD. in Engineering Science, Oxford University. He is now a Professor of Project Management at SKEMA Business School and SAIPEM Professor of Project Management at the Politecnico di Milano. He has 25 years of education experience and 35 years of consultant experience.

Honorary Fellow of the International Project Management Association, the Association for Project Management(UK) and the Project Management Associates(India)

Life-time Research Achievement Award from the Project Management Institute (2004) and from the International Project Management Association (2012)

Editor of The International Journal of Project Management (the main journal of Project Management with factor of 1.75) for 21 years

Author or editor of 6 books (including The Handbook of Project-based Management, the bestselling book published by McGraw-Hill) and more than 290 papers (among which there are 33 papers included by SSCI)